On March 2, 2020, Israeli citizens voted in national elections for the third time in a year. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party won the most seats (36), followed by Blue and White (33 seats). The smaller Israeli right-wing parties managed to expand their seat totals, giving Likud enough like-minded Knesset members to form a government. But Israeli politics are never boring, nor are outcomes all that easy to predict. To discuss the election, Aaron Stein, Director of the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, spoke with Ms. Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud, a special assistant at the Council on Foreign Relations, about the election’s outcome.
